The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-12-15
VOL. III. NO. II.
CURRENT TOPICS.

islana.
BoiLISo water Is being used to ovlct ton
ants ia Ireland.
OEstsAL shER DAN says that no wabt,
no political ofilce,
hoosAo tunnel is to be lighted by ,o5t
incandescent lamps.
MoSTRRAL will not have an leo carnival
and palnce this year.
Edison promises TO astonish the public
Boon with great Invention.
fHE United States contains In round
numbers nearly 10000 Indians.
A LohsrrR trapped In Nova Scotia Is
guessed 10 bo two centuries old.
MANY OF the best dressed women In New
York have discarded the bustle.
A hoNTnEAL youth twenty -one years old
"a hserglng his fifteenth year in prison.
SENATOR CAMERON swns more than
N,Oo,0W worth of land in Washington
GKoRo,A started, built and conducted
tho first woman's college "a the world
TnE Thomas Cat is tho name Of now pa.
per just started In Thomas County, Kan
II issaid that Senator Hiscock is fatal.
ist aud bclioycs that what Is 10 be will be.
TnE national banking capital Of tho
United States now amounts 10 S55s, i6a 765
TuE obligations thus far assumed In tho
Panama Canal scheme amount to S33i, ,OOO,.
900.
TnE Baroness Burdett-coutts has Just
received a bequcst Of 5000, 900 from rel.
atlye.
Az epidemic OF typhoid fevor prevails In
Pittsburgh. Bad water is said 10 be the
cause.
IT has Just been decided In New York
that thirtecn.yoar-old girl can not
marry.
THR porter who takes caro- OF Senator
Leland sianford's private car receives $500
month.
TnrRn are twenty.scven rcd.hcaded
members Of tho U. T. House Of Repro.
hcntaiives.
IT u estimated tha, the American girl
uses annually million dollars worth Of
chewing gum.
MicnloSx man Is going 10 buy 1000
nercs Of bog land near Chattanooga for u
celery plantation.
Lucky BALDWIN has engaged r. w.
Thomas 20 train his horaes AZ u salary Of
$1,000 pcr annum.
LADY HAHnKnroS, tho English apostle Of
bifurcatcd skirts, says she Is coming 10 this
country 70 lecture,
SKATING is Of great antiquity. II Is first
mentioned in q work entitled tho "Edda, -
written so years ago
APri.Es are so plenty In Norwich, Conn,
that barrel filled with thom is worth no
moro than an empty one
TnE Congressional Library ut Washing.
ton viii cover iil,oOo square feet, more
than two and half acres.
A RussfAS miscr Is noticed as having
lsatiied TO bark Ia order TO save tho ex-
psnsc Of keeping a Watchdog
NEw YoRk clergymon are out with pro-
toht against spending dollars on the dead
that arc ueoded by the living.
A oABLN TO connect China, Japan, AUS
tralia and tho Sandwich Islands directly
with this country Is IN prospect
DEoHMnER dividends, happily, will come
along IN good tlmo for Christmas. That is,
they will come for some people
EscLAsp pays sl5,oo0,00o year for i'm
ported eggs. Mother the sun nor tho hen
secms 70 esotf ON British territory.
luL NoNcEHucht OF tno Unitcu Glhlos
now has 4iG.eis pensioners. Tho increase
for the last four months has boen over 10.
900.
In Is noticeable fact that NM Clcmen.
ccau and Rlbot, both prominent French
statesmen, are married 10 American wo.
mon.
A PouanKErrsIE IN. " ferryboat sur
priscd itself by running down flock OF
Wild ducks. The ducks wero also sur
priscd.
TuBAc small town in Pima County,
Arix., claims 10 bo tho oldest settlement In
thu United States. Itstownrecords extend
bpok 10 1882
SIXTEEN school girls pcrished in tho re
cent burningo school In Wcrcnoblstritz
iio. Russia, and yet some people will ash
what's In n nnmei
lr Is said that Herr Most has bcon forci.
bly detained In nearly all the prisons in
theciyilized world. No wonder no has .
contempt for law
TnE editor Of lacerated contemporary
IN Webster Mass, received day or two
ngo his seventh horsewhlpplng at the
hands OF an angry woman,
GoyKRNoR BoDwELI, OF Maino, has grant.
cd Mrs. Elizabeth Colby, Of Bingham, au-
thority TO solcmnizc marriages aud take
acknowledgment OF decds.
srErnSEr BAILEY, of Columbia, s. c.,
confessed that he murdered three wives.
This bad old man did not confess, however,
until he was at his last gasp.
ONE hundred and thirty-one new names
appear on the roll OF the Nftieth Congress,
compared with ono hundred and thirty
ninc on that of the Forty.ninth
A PATCHWORK quilt made by children In
tho United States, ard an Indian shawl,
the gift OF Queen Nictorin, wero buried
with jenny Lind at her request.
THE compositors in the public printing
ofico were compelled TO swear solemn
oaths that they would not "give nwnyn a
word Of tho Presidents message.
AN expert chichon thief was recently
caught In Cincinnati His method OF rob
bing poultry yards was TO baita hook win
corn, secrete himself and fish for fowls.
A BLACKSMITH In Lewiston, Me-, Is
making money by hammcring out iron and
steel finger rings, for which he finds a
ready sale at fifty cents each. He war
rants them to cure rheumatism.
TiiE report OF tho supervising architect
shows thnt work has been postponed on O3
public buildings during tho past year Tho
amount OF money expended on buildings
repairs and sites has boon over three mil
lions.
Az undertaken OF Nashville Is authority
for the statement that, in accordance with
the dying request Of a Indy buried In that
city recently, her new hounet wasintcrre'
with her.
Two mon were arrested on the streets ~
Chicago the other day while carrying .
parlor stove with hot fire In 1t, They had
stolen II from room while the owner was
out getting breakfast.
Arrur definition OF lover Is tho fol
lowing IA lover Is n man Who ondeavora